The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-09-08
LLEWxAM'S LETTER.
Correspondence From the .Country's
Capital.

Special Correspondence Of The Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, D. G. Sept. o.
The great event in Washington this
week will be the assembling of the
Inte1 national medical Congress. Over
200 doctors had arrived up to last
night, representing every civilized
country under the sun. A great many
more will be here to day. Several of
North Cardinals prominent physicians
to be among the number. "This will
be the largest gathering of medical
men the world has ever SEEM" said
DIR. Baxter, chief medical purveyor
of the U. S. army, last night, and this
mornings indications promise the YER
ifcation of the assertion.
CLEVELAND WILL CONVENE THE CON-
At II o'clock to-day (Monday,)
when the following gentlemen will be
elected officers, they having been NOM
mated by the executive committee:
President, Nathan S. Davis, M. D., L.
L. D., Chicago; Secretary General,
Gen. John B. Hamilton, M. D., SUI
pervising surgeon general U. s.
marine hospital Washington service.
Treasurer, E. F. S. Arnold, M. D.
M. R. C. S. New Port, R. l.; Chair
man Finance Committee, Richard J.
Douglison, M. D. Phila.; Chairman
Elk Committee, Henry H. Smith, M.
d. Phila.; Asso. Secretary, VIM B.
Atkinson, M. D. Phila.
So of the general officers, it will be
seen that the South will not get Whit
of officers wind There is also long
list of Vice Presidents. The congress
will last throughout the week, adjourn
ing next Saturday, 10th inst.
THE REDUCTION OF THE REVENUE.
Mr. Speaker Carlisle has been visit
ing President Cleveland, during the
past week at the formers country res
| idence near Washington. There is
but one season to be given for the Wis
it, it was for the the purpose of con-
| ferring about the revenue reduction.
Other Democratic legislative lights
have recently been to see Mr.. Cleve-
land on the same subject and it is now
stated that an agreement has been
| reached and that bill will be framed
and introduced and reported from
the ways and means committee early
in December, (Which is expected to
| be satisfactory to the entire party
and that caucus action will be taken
on the bill at the proper time.
This bill a0iU provide for the repeal
of the tao on tobacco,
The tax on fruit brandy aOiH also be
taken off If this bill passes aOitho,a
amendment.
The 80 cents tar aoiUn not only not be
repealed: 1t will not ever be reduced a
single centime,
The custom duties on raW materials
! and other articles sviH be taken off o,
reduced to the eetent necessary to
make the expenditures fit the receipts.
That is the essence of the revenue
reduction bill which the majority par.
ty will present for passage in the next
Congress, and it should be understood
by the people of North Carolina at
the earliest opportunity.
"wHAT! NOT REPEAL THE wHIsKEY
TAx?"
! No, indeed, neither you nor your
children will live to see that tax re.
pealed Now, that Is fact which
the good people of our state should
understand at once and for all time
The sentiment of the country il
against it, overwhelming against it
A proposition to that effect in thu
next House or any subsequent House
for fifty years to come would not re
ceive the votes of so of the 325 mem
bers of that body.
This is the truth, and the politica
demagogae who gets up on the hus
ting in Western North Carolina ane
tells those people-a people who's
honesty and uprightness of purpos'
are excelled by those ofno people il
the world-that he knows differentl,
is not telling the truth, and if he is en-
dowed with a reasonable degree of in
telligence, he knows he is not tellins
it.
And that q what's the matter to day
Speakers of both parties have declared
in favor of the repeal of the law
Speakers in North Carolina hav,
said on the stump that their party
will repeal the law. Neither part,
can repeal it, TOR about four fifths o
the Democratic and nearly OF quit
nine-tenths of the Republican part,
are wholly, totally and everlastingl,
opposed to its repeal. Then, of cours
these speakers have been unable, AM
will always be unable, to fulfill sucl
promises.
And the people don't ikeit, man,
of them do not understand it, a grea
many more cannot comprehend it, an,
they begin to "cuss." Cuss who
That particular speaker Oh no! The
cuss his party, generally the democrat
ic party. And it is having a bad Ell
feet all over North Carolina.
THE LIGHT MUST BE LET IN.
l have letter from one of tn
leading Democrats of North Carolin
"a man whose name has heretofor
and now being mentioned prominent
ly in connection with the democrati
2uberl, atorial nomination. He say
the people-the Democratic people
of North Carolina want the interns
revenue laws repealed. They hav
, been told they would be repealed an
they are becoming lukewarm in som
sections because the promises olson
speakers have not been-becaIse the
cannot be-fulfilled. They ought
be made to understand these thing
1t is all right for o, re man or min
men to tell North Caro,inians tbs
l they will, ON entering congress, vot
i to repeal the internal system, root an